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SUMMARY:Martin Doyle\, Dirty Linen - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to kick off 2024 with a collaboration with our friends at the Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, home to many of our events over recent years. Martin Doyle will be joining us not in his more familiar capacity as the Literary Editor of the Irish Times but as an author in his own right. His Dirty Linen – The Troubles in My Home Place is a personal and profound exploration of the impact of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish in County Down\, Tullylish – part of both the Linen Triangle\, heartland of the North’s defining industry\, and the Murder Triangle\, an area devastated by paramilitary violence. Martin Doyle\, who grew up there\, lifts the veil of silence drawn over the horrors of the past\, recording in heartrending detail the toll the conflict took and the long tail of trauma it has left behind. \n\nDoyle skilfully weaves together the two strands of history\, with the decline of the local linen industry serving as a metaphor for the descent into communal violence\, but also for the solidarity that transcended the sectarian divide. Neighbours and classmates who lost loved ones in the conflict\, survivors maimed in bomb attacks and victims of sectarianism\, both Catholic and Protestant\, entrust him with their poignant stories. This unforgettable chorus of victims’ voices tells a terrible truth\, but the survivors’ stories of endurance and love will also inspire and restore one’s faith in humanity. \n \n \nAll paid up ILS members can claim a code to redeem a free ticket\, just contact the Secretary for the code: irishlitsoc@gmail.com.\n \n\nICC Ticket optionILS Ticket option Tickets are available online and at the venue from the Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith: TICKET LINK > The ILS 6 month membership option is now open covering all events January to July 2024: MEMBERSHIP SUBS LINK >\n\n\n \n\n\nSuperb\, really important and moving work that brings the reality of the Troubles to life and restores the human tragedy to its proper place in public memory… a vital\, potent and moving piece of work. — Fintan O’Toole. \n\n\nDirty Linen (Merrion Press\, 2023) \n  \n\n\n\n \n  \n  Speakers:  Martin Doyle\n\n\n\n  Martin Doyle\nMartin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times\, which he joined in 2007.He started his career in London in 1990 with The Irish World\, joined The Irish Post in 1992 and became its editor before moving in 2001 to The Irish Times. He edited A History of The Irish Post\, which was published in 2000 to mark the newspaper’s thirtieth anniversary. A native of Banbridge\, County Down\, he is a graduate of the University of St Andrews\, where he studied French and German. He contributed an essay to The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices (Unbound\, 2021) and to The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace (forthcoming) \n\nAnne Flaherty\n\n\n\n  Anne Flaherty\nAnne Flaherty is a journalist who was born in London and grew up in County Clare. Anne has worked for the Irish Press in Dublin and The Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from Africa and Asia. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey. Anne is a Trustee of the ICC key and a member of its literature programming team.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/martin-doyle-dirty-linen-26-jan/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,Border,crime,documentary,London-Irish,Nationalism,politics,Reading,social history
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SUMMARY:David Ireland - 21 November 2022
DESCRIPTION:The award-winning playwright\, David Ireland\, known for his wickedly dark humour and biting satire\, will be joining Dr Michelle Paull for a discussion on his work. The evening will also feature a live performance from the cast of Not Now\, Ireland’s play running in November at The Finborough Theatre.   \n\n“Cyprus Avenue was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre Dublin. I was aware I was being commissioned as an Irish writer – but I’ve always felt British. I’ve always identified as British. And yet\, I’m undeniably influenced by so much of the Irish canon – especially O’Casey\, Wilde\, Beckett and Joyce. In some ways\, I was trying to write a traditionally Irish play from an Ulster loyalist perspective. To try to encapsulate all the rage and frustration\, fear and defiance of the Planter experience in Ireland- but with the epic sweep of O’Casey and the existentialist absurdism of Beckett. I didn’t quite get to that level of genius but I did ok with my limited talent.” \n\n  Speakers and performers:  David Ireland \n\n\n\n David Ireland David Ireland is from Belfast and trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His first play\, WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY\, was produced at Oran Mor\, Glasgow in 2009. His other plays include EVERYTHING BETWEEN US (Tinderbox\, Belfast) which won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award\, THE END OF HOPE (Oran Mor)\, HALF A GLASS OF WATER (Field Day)\, YES SO I SAID YES (Ransom Productions\, Belfast)\, CAN’T FORGET ABOUT YOU (Lyric\, Belfast) and I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE (Northern Stage\, Newcastle). In 2015\, he adapted Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING for Dundee Rep and Graeae. He has also written extensively for television and radio.. His 2016 play CYPRUS AVENUE (Royal Court London/Abbey Theatre Dublin/Public Theatre NYC) won the Irish Times Award for Best New Play and the James Tait Black Award for Drama and in 2018 ULSTER AMERICAN (Traverse\, Edinburgh) won a Scotsman Fringe First\, the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award and the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best New Play.  Dr Michelle Paull \n\n\n\n Dr Michelle Paull Dr Michelle Paull is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Michelle’s PhD at Goldsmiths’ College\, University of London focused on the theatre of Sean O’Casey and she is currently working on her monograph\, Sean O’Casey: Critical Controversies. Michelle’s research and teaching interests include contemporary theatre\, London theatre\, Irish plays\, Sean O’Casey\, adaptations on stage and screen and contemporary writing in English.    \n  \n \n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/david-ireland-21-november-2022/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Belfast,Border,emigration,theatre,tradition
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SUMMARY:Kinsella\, a celebration - 28 Feb
DESCRIPTION:2021 saw the passing of the brothers Thomas (1928-2021) and John Kinsella (1932-2021). Our event will look back over their careers as poet and composer and include music and readings.  \nThomas is credited with bringing the techniques of international modernism to Irish verse. He published his first collection\, The Starlight Eye (1952)\, with Dolmen Press\, helping to set the type himself. He translated extensively from Irish\, most notably the Old Irish epic An Táin Bó Cuailgne\, published as An Táin (1969) and An Duanaire—Poems of the Dispossessed (1981). In 1972\, he founded the Peppercanister Press to publish Butcher’s Dozen. The pamphlet poem was written in the immediate aftermath of Bloody Sunday\, following the Widgery report which whitewashed the atrocities\, and published on 26 April 1972.His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Denis Devlin Memorial Award (1966\, 1969\, 1992). He taught in the US for many years and initiated and administered the Irish Tradition study program in Dublin until 1992. He long lived in County Wicklow\, Ireland\, but spent recent years living in Philadelphia. He passed away in Dublin in December of 2021. \nJohn composed both choral and vocal works\, his primary interest was in instrumental music\, and his most distinguished work is to be found in his string quartets\, concertos and particularly his symphonies. He was Ireland’s most prolific symphonist during the twentieth century.  \nJoining us to read and discuss the poetry of Thomas Kinsella are Bernard O’Donoghue\, Martina Evans\, John Mcauliffe\, James Conor Patterson\, Derval Turbidy – further speakers to be announced. David Daly will play from John Kinsella’s compositions for Double Bass and talk about working with John and his place in the life of classical music in Ireland. The evening will also comprise a full reading of Thomas Kinsella’s 1972 poem ‘Butcher’s Dozen’ – the reissue by Carcanet will be launched on the night.\n\nPlaces are reserved for paid-up members of the Society\, tickets are available to purchase for £10 below for all others.\nIMAGE CREDIT: Image from The Táin. ‘Army massing’ by Louis le Brocquy.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/kinsella-a-celebration-28-feb/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:anniversary,biography,Border,history,Irish language,music,musicology,poetry
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